JOINT WINTER RUNWAY FRICTION MEASUREMENT PROGRAM (JWRFMP): 2000 TESTING AND DATA ANALYSIS

This report is a Joint Winter Runway Friction Measurement Program (JWRFMP) report updating the research and data collection up through the year 2000 (the fifth year of the project). The project was led by Transport Canada and the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, with support from National Research Council Canada, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, Norwegian Air Traffic and Airport Management, France's Direction gnrale de l'aviation civile, and organizations and equipment manufacturers from Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Norway, Scotland, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States. The correlation constants were calculated for devices that participated in the 1997-98 test season and were reported in the 1997-98 JWRFMP report (TP 13836E) and the Fourth Year JWRFMP report. The constants were calculated by combining the two years of data. However, in the current year, 2000, it was established that not only does a calibration not apply across similar types of devices, but it changes from year to year for a particular device. Thus, the correlation constants are given on a year-by-year basis. During the year 2000, the ASTM E-2100 standard "The International Runway Friction Index" IRFI was issued. The use of the IRFI reduced the standard error from as high as 0.2 (without IRFI), down to an average under 0.05.

• Record URL:
  http://www.tc.gc.ca/tdc/summary/14000/14062e.htm
• Corporate Authors:

  Transport Canada

  Transportation Development Centre, 800 Rene-Levesque Boulevard West, Suite 600
  Montreal, Quebec  Canada  H3B 2X1

  CDRM Incorporated

  1911 East College Avenue, P.O Box 1277
  State College, PA  United States  16804

  MFT Mobility Friction Technology

  Oberst Rodes Vei 896
  1165 Oslo,   Norway 
• Authors:
  • Wambold, J C
  • Henry, J J
  • Andresen, A
• Publication Date: 2001-10

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 44 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Airplanes; Airport runways; Cold weather; Friction; Landing; Measurement; Statistical analysis; Winter
• Identifier Terms: International Runway Friction Index
• Geographic Terms: Austria; Canada; France; Germany; Norway; Scotland; Sweden; Switzerland; United States
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Data and Information Technology; Pavements; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00973788
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: TP 14062E, Final Report
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 10 2004 12:00AM